Former CU hoops recruiting target Michel ruled ineligible

BOULDER — Fans of Colorado men’s basketball don’t have to fret any longer about the Buffs failing to land 7-foot junior-college transfer Guy Marc-Michel last spring.

On Tuesday, the NCAA ruled that Michel, who signed with Indiana, is ineligible to play major-college basketball after determining that Michel enrolled at a French university in 2006. Because his five-year clock would have started at that time, he has already exhausted his window as an NCAA student athlete — before it began.

Former CU assistant and Wyoming head coach Steve McClain is an assistant at Indiana under Tom Crean.